On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:57:39AM +0000, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> Is there any reason (apart from POSIX compliance) why ls cannot output
> file lists with the directory context attached to the file?
>
> For example:
>
> $ cd somedir
> $ ls --with-dir-ctx childdir
> childdir/in.txt childdir/my.txt childdir/craft.txt
>
> This simple feature would replace a lot of complex find invocations
> for me.
What sort of find invocation? Something like just
find childdir | xargs
perhaps? Or if you need to know more about the files,
find childdir -maxdepth 1 -ls
?
Regards,
James.
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